The Tale of the Tiger-Tree (Vachel Lindsay Poems)
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood ...
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
How the Wings Were Made From many morning-glories That in an hour will fade, From many ...
Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire, The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire. ...
Sleep softly ... eagle forgotten ... under the stone. Time has its way with you there, and the clay has ...
(To a Man who maintained that the Mausoleum is the Stateliest Possible Manner of Interment) I would be one with ...
In Springfield, Illinois IT is portentious, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A ...
And must the Senator from Illinois Be this squat thing, with blinking, half-closed eyes? This brazen gutter idol, reared to ...
I I hate this yoke; for the world's sake here put it on: Knowing 'twill weigh as much on you ...
(The poem shows the Master, with his work done, singing to free his heart in Heaven.) I heard Immanuel singing ...
DEDICATED TO LUCY BATES (Being a reminiscence of certain private theatricals.) Oh, cabaret dancer, I know a dancer, Whose eyes ...
The moon's an open furnace door Where all can see the blast, We shovel in our blackest griefs, Upon that ...
SECTION ONE "Give the engines room, Give the engines room." Louder, faster The little band-master Whips up the fluting, Hurries ...
There dwelt a widow learned and devout, Behind our hamlet on the eastern hill. Three sons she had, who went ...
Would I might wake St. Francis in you all, Brother of birds and trees, God's Troubadour, Blinded with weeping for ...
I. A NEGRO SERMON:-SIMON LEGREE (To be read in your own variety of negro dialect.) Legree's big house was white ...
"Bring me soft song," said Aladdin. "This tailor-shop sings not at all. Chant me a word of the twilight, Of ...
Once I loved a fairy, Queen Mab it was. Her voice Was like a little Fountain That bids the birds ...
Who now will praise the Wizard in the street With loyal songs, with humors grave and ...
(A Negro Sermon.) Once, in a night as black as ink, She drove him out when he would not drink. ...
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